King Nelson Mandela's Image:Worship Required?

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King Nelson Mandela's Image

How Long Before Worship Is Required

>From AfricanCrisis.Org

By Shaun Willcock

7-25-4

 

There are plans to erect a giant statue of Nelson Mandela, 65 metres

(over 200 feet) high, in the city of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

This sculpture would be bigger than the Statue of Liberty in New

York!

 

Communist countries have loved to idolize their leaders, conferring

near-godlike status upon them after their deaths. Historically and

officially, Communism despised all religion, but lost no time in

creating a religion of its own: the religion of the State itself.

And the gods of this State religion were its leaders and founders,

to whom the masses were required to pay homage. Vladimir Leninís

corpse was set up in public to be virtually adored. Russians in

their hundreds of thousands would line up to file slowly and

reverently past his see-through casket, to gaze adoringly at his

mortal remains. Giant statues of Lenin, Stalin and other

Communist 'heroes' were erected all over the vast Soviet Union.

 

More recently in Turkmenistan, which used to be part of the Soviet

Union and is (like the rest of the old Soviet republics) still ruled

by Communists (for Communism never died in the USSR), the dictator

Niyazov had a giant, 40-metre, golden rotating image of himself

erected in the capital Ashgabad.

 

But South Africa looks set to outdo even such attempts at deifying

Communist rulers, with its planned massive statue of Nelson Mandela.

Nothing has been said so far about casting the statue in gold, or

making it revolve on its base, but wait, these are still early days.

In South Africa today, when it comes to the bizarre, the

sycophantic, anything is possible. More days than not, we who live

here feel as if weíre living in a giant madhouse.

 

For the time being, the Port Elizabeth city council has had to

shelve their plans for this so-called ìStatue of Freedom.î Reason: a

battle over prime property. But not for long, according to the head

of the ìStatue of Freedomî committee, who said: ìThe project

continues. The dispute might delay the whole waterfront, but we

believe the statue will go onî (The Mail and Guardian, July 16 2004,

as reported in The Witness, July 17). So it would appear that this

monstrosity, this idol of an idol, will be erected on the Port

Elizabeth waterfront? That will certainly cast a shadow - very

literally - over the sunny beaches of the 'Friendly City.'

 

South Africa is a country in turmoil. It is unraveling at the very

seams. Crime is out of control, with the country being rated as the

most violent on earth outside of a war zone. Millions are jobless

and starving. The health, education, and other departments are in

terminal decline. Racist ìaffirmative actionî is driving tens of

thousands of skilled workers to emigrate. Genocide is being waged

against the country's white farmers. Corruption at every level is

wreaking havoc with the economy. The countryís once-excellent

infrastructure is falling apart. A First World country has very

definitely become a Third World chaotic mess. And in the midst of

all of this, there are these plans to erect an image to Nelson

Mandela, the perceived god of Africa!

 

What exactly has this man done to deserve such a status? What

exactly?

 

Today, as I write this, it was Mandela's 86th birthday. The news

reports were full of scenes of people everywhere, including very

young children, singing his praises, sending him cards, and saying

things like, 'We love you!' and 'Thank you Mr Mandela!'

 

But what exactly should he be thanked for? What great exploits has

he done, to deserve such frenzied, hysterical adulation?

 

His life before prison was spent as a terrorist; and once he became

president, what happened? South Africa spiraled downwards into near-

anarchy and ruin. He has done none of the things that make a man

truly great. None. Nothing. Zero. He has, like every Communist

leader before him anywhere in the world, taken his country down the

path of collapse. And yet he is idolized the world over. Such is the

utter gullibility of the vast majority of people today. They believe

what they are told to believe. They have believed a lie.

 

Hence the planned giant image. And when it is erected, the next

giant step towards the full deification of Nelson Mandela will have

taken place. The Mandela myth will be even more firmly enshrined in

the hearts and minds of millions the world over. The world will

continue to gasp with admiration and to sing his praises. But almost

no one seems able ñ or willing -- to discern the obvious: that in

truthÖ the Emperor has no clothes.

 

The Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, made a giant image of gold, and

commanded that all men fall down before it and worship it (Dan.3:1-

7). If this image to Mandela is ever erected, will the day come when

South Africans will be required to worship before it? Does that

sound too far-fetched? In North Korea, the Communist dictator

demands to be worshipped as a god.

 

The Oxford Dictionary defines worship, among other things, as: 'to

adore with appropriate acts, rites, or ceremonies; to regard with

extreme respect or devotion; to honour; to regard or treat with

honour or respect; to salute, to bow down to.'

 

Given the already almost-godlike status conferred on Nelson Mandela

by a fawning world, can we be certain that bowing down to, saluting,

and regarding with extreme respect or devotion, will not be required

at some point in the future?